Mushroom French Bread Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 large portobello mushroom caps
- 1 pound button mushrooms
- 1/2 pound shiitake mushrooms
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 3 turns of the pan
- 2 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme leaves, 4 sprigs stripped and chopped
- 1 loaf crusty French bread, 24 inches
- 3 cups shredded Gruyere
- 1 cup of fresh, shredded Mozzarella
- your choice of your favorite pizza sauce, I use Bertolli. :) if I’m out of my homemade sauce.
Instructions
- Wipe mushrooms clean with a damp towel. Slice the mushrooms. Heat a deep skillet with extra-virgin olive oil and butter over medium heat. When butter melts into oil, add bay, garlic and mushrooms. Cook until mushrooms are dark and tender, 12 to 15 minutes. Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper and add wine. Deglaze the pan with wine, eyeball the amount. Shake the pan and add the Worcestershire and thyme. Turn off heat.
- Preheat broiler and split the loaf lengthwise and across. Hollow out a bit of the soft insides. Toast the bread lightly under broiler. Brush loafs with sauce then fill bread with mushrooms evenly and top with cheese liberally. Melt cheese until it browns and bubbles then remove the pizzas from the oven and turn off the broiler.
- I’ve used a white garlic sauce with this recipe and it was awesome.
